Semi-Bulk Updating Unsecured Websites on Mac

RonHeiby

Looking at Watchtower, I have over 100 web sites sitting in the "Unsecured Websites" section. I would like to go through these, one by one, and deal with them.

In my mind, dealing with them means entering the existing "website" URL I have saved in 1Password into Chrome, but with "https" instead of "http". If that doesn't work, I move on to the next "Unsecured" entry. If it does work, I edit the 1Password entry, stick in the "s", and save it. And then I move on to the next one.

In fact, I have some extra clicks, because as soon as I save that entry, it's no longer "Unsecured", is no longer in that section of Watchtower, and I'm staring at it in the Logins section. So I have to click again on "Unsecured Websites" and find the next entry to be dealt with.

Better would be to leave that entry where it is, and leave me looking at it where it is, until I click on the entry below it or hit the down-arrow button to move to that next entry to be handled.

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Ben

Hi @RonHeiby

Thanks for the feedback. I’m having a bit of trouble wrapping my head around having the UI keep an item in an area that it is no longer a part of, but I do see your point here. I’ll bring it up with the team and see if perhaps further consideration is required. Thanks!

Ben

rudy

@RonHeiby,

I'm curious about your workflow there. Is there a reason you're not clicking on the "make https" link at the bottom of the header in the item detail view? it does the process of attempting to connect to the URL and if it has a https version updates the item for you.

RonHeiby

I'm not clicking on the "make https" link for two reasons.

1. How do I know that the https version of the link actually exists?
2. Probably more importantly, I don't see any such link.

vplewis

@RonHeiby Maybe this helps.

Ben

Right; the ‘make https’ option checks that the link works (insofar as a page loads), so that adresses point #1. Are you seeing that now @RonHeiby? Thanks for chiming in @vplewis.

Ben

RonHeiby

That helps a bunch! I had seen it and been nervous about it, thinking that perhaps it was just doing an edit on the URL. Finally got around to actually giving it a real test, and am seeing that for some sites, it's bringing up a warning that the https URL doesn't exist. So, kudos to the team for being better than I expected!

FYI: NPR's https page wasn't found, because the geniuses running their web site decided that they needed to have a completely different URL with a different host name. grr. I'm certainly not expecting you guys to be able to deal with that sort of thing automatically.

Ben

Thanks for the update @RonHeiby. Glad to hear we were able to exceed expectations in this regard. :)

Ben

wbkang

I am sorry to resurrect this old thread but I think this is the most relevant for my issue. Does the "make https" button only exist for the Mac version and not on Windows? On Windows I see a red banner "Unsecured Website" with no option to easily make it https without clicking on edit, then typing "s".

wbkang

ag_ana

Hi @wbkang! Welcome to the forum!

Does the "make https" button only exist for the Mac version and not on Windows?

That's correct. 1Password for Windows currently does not have this button, but I have shared your feedback with the developers ;)

ref: opw/opw#3381

MaxHedrm

Another resurrection. :-) I have over 300 of these to check. It would be nice if I could tell it to covert those that https works for automatically as a batch. That way I only have to click and investigate those for which https fails. I realize I'll only have to do this once, but that would really speed it up.

This is especially painful since it returns to the top of the list after updating an item rather than selecting the next item in the list.

ag_ana

@MaxHedrm:

Thank you for the feedback! If you have a 1Password Membership and know how to code, you could also use the CLI to do this ;)

MaxHedrm

Glancing at your 1 page of documentation, uhhh, no. All it tells you how to do is Get, Create, and Update. Could I query for items that matched a particular string, list them, update them recursively? Sure I probably could, but would that just be me re-writing your Watchtower routines from scratch? That's why I buy applications instead of writing everything from scratch.

ag_ana

@MaxHedrm:

Sure I probably could, but would that just be me re-writing your Watchtower routines from scratch?

No, it wouldn't require re-writing routines from scratch. The CLI is an advanced option that we offer for anyone who might want to create something that is customized to their personal requirements. In case a feature never makes it to 1Password, the CLI allows you to build the tools you need and tweak them for your own use case :)

MaxHedrm

The problem with that is that I would be building a tool for a one time issue for me (inefficient), where your dev team would be developing it to integrate into that application for all customers (efficient). I'll probably just slog my way through it in the interface.

Though it would be nice if they would fix the way the selection annoyingly bounces back to the top after resolving one.

Lars

@MaxHedrm - I'll pass along your feedback to the development team. Thanks.

MaxHedrm

Great! Thanks!

Ben

:+1: :)

Ben